- It usually serves as a ski hill during the crisper months and gives a green-friendly view of the stars above, but for the second year in a row, Mont Tremblant will best serve those who like the intimacy of screen, projector and film. A two hour-ish ride north of Montreal, the Tremblant Film Festival may just be another blimp on the film festival circuit map (we must be closing in on the 1,000 festival mark soon), but Park City’s French-Canadian cousin has the charm, the foreign culture thing, the lieu going for it and also brought along the sort of stars who don’t need a telescope to get a good eyeful. Ioncinema.com will be present to cover the fest. Opening this past Wednesday with the French comedy Michou d'Auber with Gérard Depardieu and Nathalie Baye and closing with Julie Delpy’s rom com 2 Days in Paris on Sunday night,
- 6/22/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
PARIS -- French actor Gerard Depardieu's declaration to a French newspaper that he is preparing to end his career after he has finished shooting Michou d'Auber, about the Algerian war of independence, has created a stir in the French film industry. "I have nothing to lose. I've made 170 films. I have nothing left to prove," the 56-year-old star of such films as Green Card, Cyrano de Bergerac and Under Satan's Sun told French newspaper Le Parisien in an interview published Sunday. Depardieu added that he didn't want "to hang on like an idiot," but to "retire with a flourish" instead. But Depardieu's agent, Claude Davy, clarified that he has heard the actor make "declarations of this kind for the last 10 years," and that "he didn't believe them at all."...
- 11/1/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
French actor Gerard Depardieu has decided to retire from filmmaking, at the age of 56. Paris newspaper Le Parisien reports the Green Card actor told the cast and crew of Michou D'Auber on Friday, it was his last ever day of filming. He said, "I'm about to stop filming! I'm a guy that is leaving. And for once, I'm not drunk! I've got nothing to lose. I did 170 films, and I've got nothing else to prove. I'm not going to keep up like this for ever. I finish in style with film director Thomas Gilou, who has made lost of successes, and has made a really good film with this Michou D'Auber. I retire in style with this film. It's wonderful."...
- 10/31/2005
- WENN
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